Andrew’s Blog - Temporal Analysis: Big App for Big Data?

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently looking at how the concept of big data might be applied to capital markets. Part of this work will end up in a white paper I’m currently writing, but a lot of it was in preparation for our Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference that took place in London on 17 October. And it seems that some savvy practitioners already have a handle on how big data could help them manage the huge amounts of both structured and unstructured data they expect to be required to deal with in the very near future.

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26 Oct 2011
 
Andrew’s Blog – Big Blue Data

IBM’s announcement this week of plans to acquire Platform Computing vindicates our decision to include some Big Data discussion topics in our Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London on October 17 – that’s next week.

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13 Oct 2011
 
Andrew’s Blog – The Reawakening of Thomson Reuters

The past few weeks’ organisational regrouping in the wake of the departure of Thomson Reuters Markets CEO Devin Wenig over the summer has been supercharged by this week’s news of a complete restructuring of Thomson Reuters by CEO Tom Glocer.

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29 Sep 2011
 
Opinion: MiFIR - Flat-Packed Furniture Without the Instructions?

By Matthew Coupe, director of sales and marketing, Redkite Financial MarketsMatthew Coupe

The proposed Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has left me questioning what this piece of European regulation is actually going to achieve.

Will the final legislation give the financial industry a set of clear-cut rules to follow and be accountable to? Or is MiFIR the equivalent of a piece of complicated flat pack furniture, delivered with neither build instructions, a picture of the final product, nor the correct number of screws?

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21 Sep 2011
 
Performance Benchmarking 2011: Valuations in North American Buy-Side Institutions

Performance Benchmarking - NorAm Valuations 2011

Bloomberg swept the board in A-Team Group’s Performance Benchmarking survey of North American valuations services for the buy side. The report – sponsored by SIX Telekurs and Standard & Poor’s and available for free download below – surveyed buy-side managers on key trends, budgets and experiences with vendor services.

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12 Sep 2011
 
Andrew’s Blog - Get Involved in A-Team’s DMRAV Event – London October 17

While London’s weather may not make for exciting summer activities, we’re getting mildly animated at the prospect of pulling together the programme for our Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London on October 17.

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23 Aug 2011
 
Opinion: Interagency Guidelines on Counterparty Credit Risk Management - A Good Start, but More to Do

By Mat Newman, head of product management, Adaptiv, SunGard’s capital markets business

Recently, four US federal agencies – Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Office of Thrift Supervision – published a paper on interagency supervisory guidance on counterparty credit risk (CCR) management. The paper covers a number of wide-ranging topics from sound corporate governance for managing CCR, through to methodology choices in computing credit metrics.

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18 Aug 2011
 

 
 

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